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| Afghanistan |
| Explosions in Afghan cricket stadium leave 8 dead, 45 wounded |
| 2018-05-20 |
| [DAWN] Eight people were killed and 45 maimed in a series of kabooms targeting a cricket match in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, officials said Saturday, the first attack since the holy month of Ramadan began. The blasts went kaboom!among spectators crowded into the stadium at around 11pm (1830 GMT) on Friday evening as they watched the local "Ramadan Cup", the provincial governor's office said. No group has yet claimed the murders but the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... said they were not responsible in a WhatsApp message. Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, on the border with Pakistain, has a Taliban presence and is also a stronghold of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group. |
| Posted by:Fred |